3D Scanning in Concord, CA

Concord is where scale makes the case for scanning. The city holds Contra Costa's deepest inventory of aging office, retail, and industrial buildings entering repositioning, and each one arrives with the same deficit: a leasing plan, maybe a decades-old permit set, and no accurate record of the demising walls, slab edges, clear heights, and roof structure the new use depends on. Scanning replaces that with measurement. Downtown, densification around the BART station is producing infill on constrained parcels where a design team needs the adjacent buildings, the street frontage, and the surface utilities captured as carefully as the site itself. And the former Concord Naval Weapons Station is redevelopment ground on a scale the region rarely sees, with legacy roads, rail spurs, magazines, and utility corridors that anyone planning around them has to document before they change.

Documenting existing infrastructure before it is altered or removed is a distinct service, and we tie it to a survey control network so the record stands up later. That covers structural as-builts of bridges, culverts, retaining walls, and buildings slated for reuse; clearance surveys where new alignments have to pass under or beside existing structures; and repeat scan epochs where settlement or movement is a concern. Concord adds a mapped seismic constraint on top: the Concord fault crosses the city and portions of it are zoned under the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, so accurate surface geometry matters to the geologists as much as to the designers. Our infrastructure scanning page describes how those projects are set up.

Deliverables scale with the job: registered point clouds in E57 or Autodesk RCP, DWG/DXF plans and elevations, Revit models at the agreed level of development, and 1-foot contours with a DTM for site and corridor work. Record research and survey filings run through the Contra Costa County Recorder and County Surveyor in Martinez. See also Concord as-built surveys and Concord topographic surveys.